“You don’t understand reality television and how it works,” Bethenny added. “You’re talking about taking one hour from a 40-hour taping, and condensing it down. So many things are said, and things are edited out and taken out of context.”

“If you want to go down that road, you’d have to get a subpoena for us to watch the show and since it is edited you would have to get the uncut version, and that could delay the trial significantly. I don’t think that’s a route you want to go and I don’t think it is necessary,” the judge, Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Michael Katz, agreed.

At another point during the hearing, Bethenny fired at Robert for focusing on her on-camera persona, rather than her actual life.

“What is it you want me to answer? About the show or about my life?” she snapped, according to Page Six.

While Bethenny suggested that what is seen on The Real Housewives of New York City isn’t always real, Robert wondered why Bethenny would claim in court that she didn’t know her late boyfriend, Dennis Shields, had died of an opioid overdose, all while admitting to knowing just that on the show. As he explained, Bethenny was seen telling a grief counselor that it was harder to lose someone to a sudden overdose, rather than a progressive illness.

“[It’s] a show you shoot for seven days to get 40 minutes. I can never specifically say that’s what happened. Even if you have a transcript, it might not be what I said,” Bethenny explained.